Chrissie Hynde says she and Johnny Marr agree that “nothing is cool anymore”

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Chrissie Hynde has recalled a recent conversation with Johnny Marr in which the pair agreed that nobody seems to call anything “cool” anymore.The frontwoman of The Pretenders wrote an extended post on Instagram about their conversation.“We were saying how nothing is ‘cool’ anymore,” Hynde wrote. “Has anyone else noticed that?

It used to be… ‘That guy looks cool’. Now it’s ‘That guy’s hot.’ So whatever happened to cool?”“In case you don’t know what I mean (because you’ve grown up with social media) I include below a list of ‘cool’ versus ‘uncool’ to give you an idea,” she continued.She began by defining cool as “quiet and reserved” and “modest but mysterious” whereas to be uncool was to be “loud and showy” or “boastful and oversharing”.A post shared by Chrissie Hynde (@chrissiehyndemusic)In her mind, “sports cars in the ’60s” were cool and “any SUV” or “any car you might see parked outside the London Dorchester Hotel” was uncool.

Also considered cool are low music in restaurants, bands, discretion, good manners, reading a book on public transport, “attention to detail in one’s dress” and “watching any form of theatre or event sans phone”.By contrast, the things Hynde believes are uncool include “banging computer made sounds that you can’t talk over”, backing tracks, vulgarity, “talking loudly down the phone in a public place”, eating on public transport, “sloppy, dumpy attire” and “using a phone for any reason at a live event (especially a Pretenders concert”).To finish, Hynde invited anyone “in favour of bringing back ‘cool’” to post their own ‘cool’ and ‘uncool’ list, “(unless you think lists are ‘uncool’ “.In other news, late last year Hynde issued somewhat of an apology to fans after sharing a set of rules for.